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Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
Solomon Ortiz
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It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.
Solomon Ortiz
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Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.
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Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
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56% of people like this quote
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz
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Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
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Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.
Solomon Ortiz
54% of people like this quote
To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
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Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
Solomon Ortiz
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For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.
Solomon Ortiz
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In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.
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In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
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Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
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This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
Solomon Ortiz
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This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.
Solomon Ortiz
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